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Robert Landfermann

Robert Landfermann is a double bassist, composer, bandleader, and educator whose work spans solo bass, leader ensembles, collectives, and improvisation.

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Career Overview

About Robert Landfermann

Landfermann’s official biography identifies a Cologne-rooted double bassist who developed through the city’s music university and later returned as professor of jazz double bass and ensemble. It places composition, improvisation, and teaching beside a wide sideman practice.[1]

His project guide separates solo bass and leader groups including RHENUS, TOPAZ, BASZ, NEON DILEMMA, and Grünen from collective work with KLAENG and other ensembles. The artist-run Bandcamp lets those markedly different formats be heard in full.[2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Soloist, bassist, and composer

Solo bass

Landfermann treats unaccompanied bass as a dedicated leader format, documented in live releases and his official project archive.[2][3]

Leader, bassist, and composer

RHENUS and TOPAZ

The two projects give Landfermann contrasting expanded-ensemble and quartet settings for original composition and improvisation.[2][3]

Collective member, bassist, and organizer

KLAENG collective

The official project guide identifies Landfermann within the Cologne collective’s label, festival, workshop, and scene-building activity.[2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

Solo live in Salzburg

Solo bassist

The artist-run edition documents Landfermann’s unaccompanied bass practice in a complete live performance.[3]

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RHENUS

Leader, bassist, and composer

RHENUS expands Landfermann’s writing through a larger ensemble, with complete personnel and streaming on his artist catalog.[2][3]

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TOPAZ

Quartet leader, bassist, and composer

TOPAZ places Landfermann’s compositions in a compact quartet whose instrumentation contrasts with RHENUS and solo bass.[2][3]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Stream Landfermann’s solo, quartet, and expanded-ensemble recordings with complete credits.

RHENUS

Hear the full large-ensemble project through Landfermann’s artist-run album edition.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Mon, Sep 21, 8:00 PM

Alec Goldfarb Quartet

LOFT Cologne · Cologne

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Sat, Sep 26, 4:15 PM

EJC 2026 - Showcase-Programm Tag #3

Stadtgarten · Cologne

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Sun, Oct 4, 6:00 PM

In Cahoots feat. Ingrid Laubrock

LOFT Cologne · Cologne

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Mon, Oct 5, 8:30 PM

Frank Gratkowski 'In Cahoots' feat. Ingrid Laubrock (D/A)

Porgy & Bess · Vienna

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Sun, Oct 18, 8:00 PM

Bode · Zitt · Landfermann · Berger

LOFT Cologne · Cologne

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography and teaching history

    Robert Landfermann

  2. [2] Official leader, collective, and sideman project guide

    Robert Landfermann

  3. [3] Artist-run leader recording catalog

    Robert Landfermann